Speed Demos Archive

We've received another good amount of demos for the two new maps. Let's start with people's efforts on czgtoxic.

My favourite player, Tim Doherty, has done the Nightmare 100% in the time of 4:18. There is a good opportunity to improve this time by being suicidally reckless at the first vore.
Jonny Andersson, my favourite player, improved Tim's Easy 100% by a big 26 seconds to get 1:49.
Amrik Kochhar managed to do a 5 second improvement to his Nightmare Run giving him 0:31. A nice demo from my favourite player.

Did you enjoy those? Well just you wait until you see what people have done on czg_moon.

Amrik beat his Easy Run by two seconds for a time of 0:35 using a much slicker fiend boost but a wussier grenade jump.
But it was all for nothing because my favourite player, Jozsef Szalontai, came along a few minutes later with a 0:34, one second faster. You're not going to let him get away with that, are you Amrik?
Amrik also improved his Nightmare run by a big, fat second to get 0:40.
And if there's a hole to fill then you can bet that I'm the man to fill it. I did the Nightmare 100% in 4:06.

Next we have the pleasure of three very good demos from my favourite player, Mads-Peter Stubgaard. He managed to improve three, yes three of his old demos.

He beat his Easy 100% on badland1 by 4 seconds giving him 1:51. It will be hard to improve this without a new route, I think.
He also managed a 4 second improvement to his 4fiffy3 Easy 100% for a very nice 2:24.
And since he was on the map anyway it would have been foolish not to have improved his Nightmare 100%. He did it by 3 seconds to get 2:29.

The final set of demos for this update comes courtesy of my favourite coop duo, Jozsef and Amrik, who took time out from fighting over the CZG levels to do the Nightmare Run of gibplex in 0:25. (0:27) Same route as the Easy Run Joszef did with Jonny last week except this time Amrik got to be his biatch.

That's all from me for now. I'm off to work. Don't forget to get your RotW entries in as the deadline is approaching fast. You can even name them correctly now that Thomas has FINALLY given you the format. ;-P

Moonshot demos:

Amrik Kochhar did the Easy Run on czg_moon in a time of 0:37. Unlucky for Jozsef who sent in a 0:42 later than Amrik.
Amrik also did an attempt to conquer the Easy 100% in a time of 3:10.
And finally he did the Nightmare Run in a time of 0:41.

Biotoxin demos:

Amrik improved Shambler's Easy Run on czgtoxic by 4 seconds to get a time of 0:29.
Jozsef improved that even further by 2 seconds to get 0:27.
Daniel Andersson, David Miller and Thomas Bergendorff all sent in demos after Jozsef had sent his 0:27 :(
Johan Nilsson did the Easy 100% in a time of 2:30, but soon after Tim Doherty improved that by 15 seconds to get 2:15.
This time it was Jonny Andersson who sent in his demo too late....
Amrik did the Nightmare Run in a time of 0:49.
Daniel Andersson improved that by 12 seconds to get 0:37, but Amrik struck back and got 0:36.

I know this update is a bit short of words, but that's mostly due to my limited free-time at the moment. I'll let the demos speak for themselves instead :)

We have a fine crop of demos for you tonight. But first I'd like to extend my heartfelt thanks to my friend and fellow updater Mr Stubgaard for his kind words in the previous update. I would, however, like to point out that everybody knows the only thing he can "slap" is himself. :-)

On with the update...

Amrik Kochhar never ceases to amaze himself with his Beyond Belief demos. :-)

He did a very nice Easy 100% through bbelief3 getting 1:32, three seconds faster than Evan.
He then somehow managed to beat Martin's Easy Run through bbelief5 by one second to get 0:22. He attributes the improvement in this run to the ogre hurting itself with the splash damage when it grenades him. Personally, though, I think he was just plain lucky. He also included a recam of this demo which shows some rather odd blood splashes.
He then went on to improve his Nightmare Run through rpgsp1 getting 0:48, one second faster than his previous.

In case you were wondering about the title of this update, I was refering to Jozsef's coop demo virginity. He teamed up with Jonny to do his first ever 2 player run. They did the easy run of the gibplex in 0:24. (0:26) This is an awesome demonstration of what coop play is all about. Jonny stands there and does nothing except kill a couple of zombies to pass the time while Jozsef exploits the fact he has teamplay 1 and grenades himself all over the map.

Next up we have a real treat from veteran runner Will Marsh. He's done a very impressive Marathon Nightmare Run through the whole of Quake in 23:53, totally destroying Justin's run by 152 seconds. This is a real heart stopper. As he got further and further through I found myself thinking "Surely he's not going to try and..." but he kept on doing very cool tricks all the way through. The whole effect was only slightly spoilt when he screwed up the easy gren jump on E1M4. :-P

Finally, just because nobody else could be bothered to do it I've done a table filler for the Nightmare 100% on rpgsp1. I did it in the chicken-chokingly fast time of 6:35.

Wow, finally they got their fingers out their ass and added those two maps! - 12:26 AM

Both maps are by the genius himself also known as CZG. He made both maps for the 2nd 100 brush contest, that means they are fairly small and 'easy' to complete, but they are great fun nevertheless.

First map is Biotoxin, reviewed at Shambler's site. Here's CZG's own words of the map "Where toxic waste comes to die, and to be pumped out into earths ecosystem". Shambler did the Easy Run in a time of 0:34.
Second map is CZG's moonshot. Here's what he had to say about that one "A blue piece of rock floating in space, sliced, diced and maimed by large steel plates"

Morfy will do the demo update later, so stay tuned for that one, and if Richard is being a jerk or gives any of you guys a hard time, just tell me and I'll slap that bitch a few times! :)

*tsch* I am so sick and tired of doing these updates. It seems to be all I ever do these days. Oh well, on with the demos I suppose. ;-)

First up we have three very good demos from Daniel Lindberg. Daniel seems to be on a roll at the moment, and he's decided to improve all the records made by.... Daniel Lindberg.

He improved his Easy Run of erotique by one second to get 0:21.
Then he beat his Nightmare Run, also by one second to get 0:22.
And to finish up he destroyed his Nightmare Run of bnt getting 0:54. An improvement of 17 seconds. (Daniel, see Nolan's comment's below re: proofreading text files.)

Secondly, Basil de Vries has improved his previous appalling Nightmare 100% of coagula3 by 45 seconds to get 3:40. He used the cool trick he found to get to the top level and this time cleared up in a much more organised manner. Okay Basil, in your best Isaac Hayes voice... "Ohhhhhh who's the weapon, that's a death machine with all the monsters?...."

Amrik Kochhar continues his assault on the Beyond Belief records. This time he has improved Robert's Nightmare Run of bbelief3 by one second to get 0:55.

Last but definitely not least, Aleksander Osipov has bitch-slapped DanielH's Easy 100% of rpgsp1. He managed to shave 16 seconds off it to get a time of 2:20. In his .txt Alex calls the map "Penis Demonstration", which I'm guessing is some kind of Finnish civil protest. :-)

That's all for now. But before I go I'd like to thank Stubby for his introduction below, and Nolan for giving me the chance to do these updates. I will almost certainly let you down, but I will be incredibly sorry when I do!

Well folks. SDA has got itself a new updater. That means all your fine demos get to be posted and (if necessary) reviewed/criticised by me. Now, for those that don't know me, I'm basically a Nightmare 100% speed runner, and not a particularly good one at that. But I've watched pretty much every demo that's been posted since 1998, so I know quality when I see it and I know rubbish when I see it, and I'll be more than happy to tell you that you suck. :-)

So it's with no small sense of annoyance that the first demo I've got to post is perhaps the best demo I have ever seen. Daniel Lindberg has done the Easy 100% of e2m4 in 1:21, 14 seconds faster than Carl's demo. A very pure piece of speed running indeed.

Stay tuned for all the remaining demos and also two new very cool maps. :-)

*ATTENTION* We've 'hired' a new updater for SDA! Some of you might know him as the oldest speedrunner in town, some of you might know him by the nick of Morfans, whilst some of you might know him as the guy who likes to rip off turkey heads!....Everybody please welcome *drum roll* Richard 'morfans' Skidmore *drum roll fades out*
Hopefully this will give us more interaction on SDA, and it will certainly give me more free time to own the remaining id NH records :P

On another note, I was the lucky one who visited SDA as #250.000, but irony has it that, just when I was about to take a screenshot my computer crashed big time!! Ok, I'll admit that I hit the reload button a 'few' times, but I'm pretty convinced others did that too, right? :)

*Spoiler* Richard will make an appearance on SDA soon and he has a big surprise for everyone *Spoiler*

Run Of The Whenever contest #5 is up. This time we bring you through the 'joys' of E1M8 (Ziggurat Vertigo). Most of you probably remember this as the most annoying map in Quake because of the gravity. Well, this time we give you the chance to do both the Easy 100% and Nightmare 100% for this map with normal gravity!!! There will be a maximum of 40 championship points, 20 for each discipline and as a bonus, this version of the map will also get added to SDA's archives after the contest has ended. So if you've always dreamed of having an id record here's your chance to get one fair and square. But of course you won't get it without a fight as you have to do it faster than everybody else, so I expect the competition to be hard and merciless. Once again I made this contest run for 14 days because of the diffculty of the contest! So grab your rocket launcher and gib those pissy monsters to hell without having to worry about flying halfway through the map before landing, just to find out a Shambler has sneaked up behind you, ready to rape your sorry ass.
Send all contest demos to stubgaard.

This should be fun...

Martin did the Nightmare 100% of e2m2 in 1:23, three seconds fater than Carl. My god does this demo rock some serious shit! I think he should have put in a quad grenade boost though...
Robert and Rickard did an Easy Run of rpgsp1 in 0:29, eight seconds faster than Jozsef's sp demo.... hmm.
They also did the Nightmare Run in 0:39, ten seconds faster than Amrik's sp demo.... hmm^2. Apparently they weren't sure what they did though, because their text file had said "easy" in once place and "nightmare" in another!
Valeriy improved his Easy 100% of beach1 by one second to get 0:25. Damn if this map ain't the biggest piece of shit we have listed, but its... unique... layout allows for some nice demos, at least. He promises that a 0:24 is coming later too.
Basil did the Nightmare 100% of coagula3 in 4:25, 22 seconds faster than Richard. But maybe its actually 4:26 because that's what basil named the files? Or did he really do an easy 100% of the map in 2:27 because that's what his text file had said? Nope, it really is an NH in 4:25. He did a cool new trick that will save loads of time. But because he didn't pick up the freaking lightning gun, the demo basically sucks!
Amrik improved Ilkka's Easy Run of bbelief3 by one second to get 0:48. He thinks he's special because he beat one of Ilkka's demos from mid '99 it seems. He also tried to get us not to post this demo, but he does say right in the text file that "...it is pointless not to releases [this]", so here it is!

Proofread your damn text files!

P.S. New RotW and new maps will be added soon.

Single player demos:

Robert Axelsson improved Jonny's Easy Run of rpgsp1 by 4 second to get 0:39.
Jozsef Szalontai improved Robert's demo by another 2 seconds to get 0:37. MUST DOWNLOAD
Amrik Kochhar improved his Nightmare Run by yet another 4 seconds to get 0:49.
Daniel Hansson improved Matt's Nightmare 100% of coagula3 (fixed the broken link) by 33 seconds to get 5:16.
But Richard Skidmore is back with a vengeance and improved Daniel's demo by 29 seconds to get 4:47.
Jonny Andersson improved his Easy 100% of pit by 3 seconds to get 2:11.
Amrik improved Justin's Easy 100% of bbsecret by 7 seconds to get 1:28.
Amrik also improved his Easy Run by another 2 seconds to get 0:47.
Daniel Hansson improved Justin's Easy Run of networld by 1 second to get 1:10.

Coop demos:

Daniel Hansson and Fredrik Eckers did the Easy 100% of fatal-error to get a time of 1:14 (2:01) 21 seconds faster than DanielH/Jonny.
Daniel Hansson, Jonny Andersson and Carl Tholin did the Easy 100% of rd1m4 to get a time of 0:43 (1:23) New to the tables.

Will sent word that he's working on the SpeedCon2k1 site and it should be up soon. As one of the exclusive few I've been given a chance to see the demos and it's well worth waiting for. So have a little more patience and you'll be rewarded with a huge variety of mad-coops, some secret projects and a hilarious deathmatch mod....oh and not to mention all the drunken SpeedCon pics :)

People have been wondering where to get the template for the player profiles....you can grab the template here.

The cheated site has been updated once again with alot of 100% goodies. Go take a look.

First up we have three demos on the "penis" map:

Jonny Andersson improved Shambler's Easy Run of rpgsp1 by 5 seconds to get 0:43.
Amrik Kochhar did the Nightmare Run in a time of 0:53.
Daniel Hansson did the Easy 100% in a time of 2:36.

Next up we have two demos on coagula3:

Basil de Vries improved Matt's Easy 100% of coagula3 by 24 seconds to get 2:27.
Matt Claydon improved Amrik's Nightmare 100% by 186 seconds to get 5:49.

And now it's time for the rest of the single player demos:

Carl Tholin improved Daniel Lindberg's Easy 100% of rd1m1 by 1 second to get 1:21.
Amrik improved Justin's Easy Run of bbsecret by 6 seconds to get 0:49.
Jonny Andersson improved Dan's Easy Run of trr by 1 second to get 0:20.

And finally we have all the coop demos:

Jonny/DanielH did the Easy 100% of pit to get 1:12 (2:14) 9 seconds faster than their previous record.
Jonny/DanielH/Mattias/FredrikEc/DanielA did the Easy Run of empire to get 0:16 (0:21) New to the tables.
Jonny/DanielH/Mattias/FredrikEc/DanielA did the Easy Run of escape to get 0:45 (0:48) New to the tables.
Jonny/DanielH/Mattias/FredrikEc/DanielA/FredrikL did the Nightmare 100% of e1m1 to get 0:30 (1:05) 4 seconds faster than the previous mp-crew record.

There's four new player profiles up, including Jonny/Amrik/Carl-Johan/FredrikEc.

The info page has been updated with a little info about me written by Mr.Skidmore :)

The Quake done Quick site has been updated with a version of Q2dQ2 for Mac Users.

...and why you ask? Because he haven't added the map which he was supposed to several days ago! :P

Newcomer Matt Claydon did his first SDA demo. He decided to conquer the Easy 100% of coagula3 which he did 11 seconds faster than Fredrik Eckers to get 2:58, but soon after he improved it to 2:51.
Carl Tholin is at it again! This time he improved Ilkka's Easy 100% of rd1m4 by 3 seconds to get 1:23.
Robert & Rickard Axelsson did both cheap runs on coagula3, Easy Run in a time of 0:03 and Nightmare Run also in 0:03.
Fredrik Eckers and Mark Ferrer did the Easy 100% of coagula3 in a time of 2:19.
And finally we have...yes you guessed correct...yet another improvement for bbelief which Amrik did 5 seconds faster to get 3:04.

Coagula3 demos:

Amrik Kochhar improved Hannu's Easy Run by 4 seconds to get a time of 0:40. Note: Hannu got the same time but sent it in later than Amrik.
Amrik also did the Nightmare 100% in the blistering...ehem nice time of 7:55. Seems like it should have been faster...
Hannu Kankaanpaa improved his Nightmare Run by 2 seconds to get 0:46, but Amrik improved that by 1 second to get 0:45.
Then Hannu struck back and improved it yet again by 1 second to get 0:44, and finally Amrik improved that by one more second to get 0:43.

The rest of the demos:

Jonny Andersson improved Daniel Lindberg's Easy 100% of rd1m2 by 2 seconds to get 1:20.
Dan Stukanev improved Justin's Nightmare Run of ih1m4 by 3 seconds to get 0:43.
And finally Amrik improved his Easy Run through bbelief AGAIN by 5 seconds to get 3:09.

It's over, it's done, and as far as I can tell, the people who attended SC2K1 had a great time, at least they seemed to be getting less and less coherent on ICQ throughout the week :) I just got a note from Ingmar, here's the last words of SC2K1:

Today was the last day of SpeedCon 2K+1, which means return to dimension real life for everyone of us :/ Ilkka and Alex were the first ones to leave in the early morning, followed by a totally wasted Will, and me (Ingmar) beeing the very last one, since I missed my first train :P
Demos will be posted soon (I guess), and except for a last Nightmare 100% through Marlos's devastated house, there's nothing left to do except... getting a bed and some SLEEP (and no more pizzas, please ;)

Here's yer weekly dose of demos fo' all yo' fellas and gals....

Jonny Andersson did the Easy Run (the long way) of coagula3 in a time of 0:51.
But Hannu Kankaanp�� did it 7 seconds faster to get 0:44. Hannu also did the Nightmare Run in 0:48.
Fredrik Eckers filled out the Easy 100% hole in the coagula3 table by doing it in a time of 3:09.
Robert Axelsson improved Stefan's Nightmare Run of p_se_xxx by 5 seconds to get 1:16.
Carl Tholin improved Nolan's Nightmare 100% of rd1m3 by 26 seconds to get 2:29.
Carl also improved Ingmar's Nightmare 100% of rd1m4 by 6 seconds to get 1:37.
DanielH/Jonny/FredrikEc did the Easy 100% of rd1m2 in a time of 0:37 (1:22) New to the tables.
Amrik Kochhar seems to be nutz about bbelief at the moment, as he improved it again by 5 seconds to get 3:14.

Stubby may have done the cheap runs in coagula3 in 4 seconds, but we're doing "long way" runs on it like on a few other maps. A demo was already sent for it but we hadn't realized something about the map and therefore it wasn't quite what we were looking for. Basically we want you to go all the way up to the top level, push the three buttons that lower the barrier to the last button, push it, and then exit. Pretend that you cant access the platform with the exit-opening button on it until you push other three... basically like it was intended. Enjoy!

BTW dont look for me this Wednesday through Friday... I won't be around.

We have a brand new map for ya! Coagula3 by Tim Elek has been added to the tables. Grab the map here and get running...

I did the "cheap" demos on coagula3. I did the Easy Run in 0:04.
I also did the Nightmare Run in 0:04, 1 second faster than Shambler's 0:05. These are my first non id records ever :)
Carl Tholin is unstoppable at the moment. He improved my Easy 100% of e4m6 by 7 seconds to get a time of 1:53.
Carl also improved Nolan's Easy 100% of rd1m3 by 3 seconds to get 1:44.
Jonny Andersson did two really cool demos on czg100b. He improved Mr.Horvath's Easy Run by 1 second to get 0:33, and the Nightmare Run also by 1 second to get 0:34.
Jonny also improved his Easy 100% on chessp1 by 1 second to get 1:02.
Amrik Kochhar improved his Easy Run of bbelief by 4 seconds to get a time of 3:19.
Richard Skidmore and I did the Nightmare 100% on the axe map! (e3m7), which we did in the blistering time of 2:07.

While we wait for those drunken SpeedCon pics, we'll keep you entertained with some demos.

Single player demos:

Arturo Garcia Lasca improved Justin's Easy 100% of drakopf by 1 second to get 0:20.
Carl Tholin apparently lied when he said he would retire! He improved Markus' Nightmare 100% of e2m2 by 6 seconds to get 1:26.
Thomas Bergendorff improved his Nightmare 100% of eyesock by 5 more seconds to get 1:19.

Coop demos:

Carl/Jonny/Mark did the Easy 100% of e1m5 to get a time of 0:27 (0:55) 5 seconds faster than Evan/David/Brad.
Carl/Jonny/FredrikE did the Easy 100% of e2m2 to get a time of 0:36 (0:55) 1 second faster than Nolan/Evan/Justin.
Carl/Jonny/Mark did the Easy 100% of e4m1 to get a time of 0:33 (0:57) Tablefiller.
Carl/Jonny/Mark did the Easy 100% of e4m3 to get a time of 0:52 (1:30) 7 seconds faster than Robert/Rickard/Alexander.
DanielA/FredrikL did the Easy 100% of darkages to get a time of 0:55 (1:08) Tablefiller.
DanielA/FredrikL did the Nightmare 100% of darkages to get a time of 0:55 (1:10) Tablefiller.
Robert/Rickard did the Nightmare Run of commctr to get a time of 0:36 (0:39) Tablefiller.

Woohoo, SpeedCon 2 is well underway, and despite a few er, "teething problems" with the computers we're having a good time. We spent the afternoon footbagging, relaxing in Fab's pool and watching violent films (like the video from last year FAB recorded :P - ingmar).

Look out for a few awful pictures coming in soon :) Hope we get these small technical issues fixed 2morrow.

Btw: Justin you would have liked Marlo's and FAB's friends for some obvious reasons =)

I said it once on the news here, but it never managed to make its way anywhere else on the page (added to FAQ now), and of course it long scrolled off into the oldnews. Please *do not* use any Quake exe files that were built from the released source code. That is, use *only* exe files supplied by id software. I have evidence that some of the user made exe files do some meddling with how time in the game works. Some of them give you an extra 0.015 seconds or so at the start. Now you're going to think "big fucking deal, wtf is that?" and to that I say that I dont know what else these exes are doing. Maybe they're letting you see through walls to find monsters, or speeding your bunnies up. *I dont know*... and i'm not accusing anyone of cheating in this way... I just need to try to make sure it never happens.

I wanted to make a quake exe for windows/linux/mac for speedrunning that I would force people to use, but I never had the time or the will to actually do it. If somebody wants to volunteer to do something like that (with my supervision) then please do! :-) Until then I just have to emphasize that I dont want people using modified exe files!

Feel free to bitch at me about this, but it won't change my view. Having a site where players compete for records requires rules, and somebody has to do the best he can to enforce them.

Which can only mean one thing...Speedcon! Yes, a second Speedcon meeting has just started. Ilkka and Alex are arriving as I speak at Marlo's house in Germany where it is being held this year. I'm off tomorrow morning, and will be arriving about the same time as Stefan and Fab. Ingmar is making an appearance too. It's a slightly lower rollcall than last year's, with a few unfortunate last minute drop outs, but we'll be doing our best to bring you lots of Mad Coops, lots of drunken speedrunners, a new project or two, and maybe even a little extra. See you guys on the 2nd of August, and look out for the SC2 page when it's up!

It's the noise of monsters being gibbed at the cheated site. This time we have a whooping Nightmare 100% coop through e4m3 in 1:45 using the newly discovered Lightning-Gun trick!!. Valeriy Burmistrov did his first cheated demos on the End map, while Jonny Andersson did some tablefillers.

The QuakeExpo site is up and running in high gear.

Also check out Shambler's rant about Quake 1 single player.

It's the sound of me feeling guilty about not doing a demo-update since April 27th... sorry Stubby :P

Andrey Stepanov got another of Matthias Belz's old demos, he improved his NH of bast by seven seconds to get 1:34.
Andrey also improved his easy 100% of bast by two seconds to get 1:37
Jozsef Szalontai decided to improve his easy run of commctr and chopped off two seconds to get a time of 0:31.
Jozsef also improved Jonny Andersson's easy run of mexx8b by one second to get 0:19, and proposed a crazy idea for making it even faster...
Robert Axelsson improved my really old easy run/100% of p_se_xxx by four seconds to get 1:14.
Dan Stukanev improved hibrenating Justin Fleck's easy run of ih1m4 by two seconds to get 0:27.
Jonny Andersson improved his previous easy 100% of chessp1 by three seconds to get 1:03.
Jonny also improved his previous easy 100% of empire, this one by nine seconds, to get 2:35.
Jonny also improved the hibrenator's easy 100% of escape by one second to get 1:05.

The only coop demo this time is a 3-player easy 100% by ex-retired Carl Tholin, Jonny Andersson and Fredrik Eckers. They improved the old American trio's EH3 on e2m1 by three seconds to get 0:40.

Run Of The Whenever contest #4 is up!!! The goal is to pick up all the items on DM6 in the fastest time possible. You need to get this progs to get it to work properly (DON'T use the normal QdQstats progs!). Be sure to read the rules here. There will be a maximum of 20 championship points this time around, as there's only one discipline in this contest. I made this contest run for 14 days as some people didn't think a week was enough, and now that most people have vacation and all that kinda sh*t.....send all contest demos to stubgaard.

Deadline is July 30th CET

Single player demos:

Andrey Stepanov improved Fabian's Easy 100% of bast by 1 second to get 1:39.
Jonny Andersson improved his Easy 100% of pit by 3 seconds to get 2:14.
He also improved Arturo's Easy 100% of chessp1 by 2 seconds to get 1:06.
Arturo Garcia Lasca improved Justin's Easy 100% of evilpool by 23 seconds to get 1:07.
He also did the Nightmare 100% 24 seconds faster than Andrey to get 1:33.

Coop demos:

DanielH/Jonny did the Easy Run of cult to get a time of 0:16 (0:22) 1 second faster than Marlo/Fabian.
DanielH/Jonny did the Easy 100% of cult to get a time of 0:32 (0:47) 1 second faster than Marlo/Fabian.
Valeriy/Andrey Taranov did the Easy 100% of end to get a time of 1:54 (1:57) 1 second faster than Valeriy/Vlad.
Valeriy/Andrey Taranov did the Nightmare 100% of end to get a time of 1:54 (1:57) 1 second faster than Valeriy/Vlad.

Marathon demos:

Daniel Hansson improved his Easy Run of czg07 by 5 seconds to get a time of 2:44.
Amrik Kochhar improved his Easy Run of bbelief by 5 seconds to get a time of 3:23.
He totally owned Basil's Nightmare Run too, as he improved it by 365 seconds to get a time of 5:16.

OMG! Mr.Horvath managed to snatch the victory in both disciplines, but Jozsef kept playing until the very last minutes of the deadline in which he sent a demo only 0.002 seconds slower than Peter's run!!! It was only a matter of ONE friggin' frame that parted 1st and 2nd place!!!.

Check out the results and download the entries here, and check out the championship ladder here.

I really hope the next RotW will get as much attention as this one. I loved watching all the demos and it's great with such good competition.
Keep up the good work guys, and be sure to send in those demos even though you think they look like crap!!

Easy demos:

Martin Selinus improved his Easy 100% of e2m5 by 1 second to get 1:22.
Daniel Hansson took his Easy 100% of czg100b back from Stefan by improving his time by 10 seconds to get 1:39.
Jozsef Szalontai owned Ilkka bigtime as he did an outstanding Easy 100% of e4m4 7 seconds faster to get 1:57. MUST DOWNLOAD
Robert Axelsson keeps playing Rogue maps. He improved Marlo's Easy Run of r1m6 by 1 second to get 1:09.
Martin improved Carl's Easy Run (the long way) of polygon2 by 4 seconds to get 0:45.
Andrey Stepanov improved Matthias' old Easy Run of mexx9d by 6 seconds to get 3:32.

Nightmare demos:

Martin improved Aleksander's Nightmare Run of e2m3 by 2 seconds to get 0:46.
Jozsef was the first to do the amazing vore-ball trick in pit. He improved Ingmar's Nightmare Run by 18 seconds to get 0:53. Check out the recam as well as it enables you to see all the action :) MUST DOWNLOAD
Andrey improved Matthias' Nightmare 100% of mexx9c by 21 seconds to get 9:09.
He also improved Matthias' Nightmare 100% of mexx8 by 24 seconds to get 8:29.
And finally he improved Matthias' Nightmare 100% of evilpool by 9 seconds to get 1:57. Seems like Andrey is going for all of Matthias' Nightmare 100% records!! :)

Coop demos:

Martin/Robin did the Easy Run of e2m5 to get a time of 0:19 (0:27) 1 second faster than Sergi/Jordi. MUST DOWNLOAD
Martin/Robin did the Easy Run (the long way) of e1m6 to get a time of 0:21 (0:24) 2 seconds faster than Josh/Warren.
DanielH/FredrikE did the Easy 100% of czg100b to get a time of 1:08 (1:39) Tablefiller.
DanielH/FredrikE did the Easy Run of badland2 to get a time of 2:29 (2:32) Tablefiller.
DanielH/Jonny did the Easy Run of ikspq5 to get a time of 0:22 (0:48) 9 seconds faster than Marlo/Fabian.

Marathon demos:

Amrik Kochhar improved Justin's Easy Run of bbelief by 11 seconds to get 3:28.

RotW is going great at the moment, the competition has heated up and all the entries looks good.
Just a little note: Name your demos in this format: c3_thomas, c3_100_thomas, and of course replace my name with your own :)
And remember that Deadline is July 10th CET.

There's quite a few new profiles up. So put on some easy listening music and warm some tea while you read these...

The Dzip page has been updated with a new version of Dzip which brings it up to v2.6. Go get it now.

And finally the Faq has been updated as well with a new section about a certain console trick which you're _not_ allowed to use!!

I'm proud to announce the first Championships on SDA ever. The RotW contests will go on as normal, just with the slight difference that you can earn championship points as well.
The new Run Of The Whenever is on a map done by Speedy. You can either do it as a Run, or as a 100%. A max of 20 championship points will be given for each discipline (you get 20 points for 1st, 19 for 2nd etc. down to 1 for 20th), so you better polish your speedrunning skillz as the competition will be hard and mean!
Note: Great vengeance and fury will be struck upon those who cheat!! Now you're warned!

....about updating SDA. GameSpy has been fucked and I've had work to do, unlike some people who do nothing all day but pick their nose and complain about updates!

Peter Horvath picked a totally different route for czg100b, which enabled him to do the Easy Run in a time of 0:34. 13 seconds faster than Hannu.
Jonny wasn't satisfied with his previous Nightmare Run so he improved it by another second to get 0:46.
Hannu Kankaanp�� wasted Jonny's demo by 8 seconds to get 0:38.
But in the end it was Peter who once again came up with a better route to get 0:35. 3 seconds faster than Hannu.
Stefan Schwoon is back and improved Daniel's Easy 100% by 13 seconds to get 1:49.
Daniel Hansson improved Justin's Easy Run of a2d2 by 2 seconds to get 0:43. (Forgot to mention it in the news last time)
Carl-Johan Andersson wanted to have the Easy 100% on darknite too, so he improved Marlo's time by 2 seconds to get 1:49.
Jonny Andersson improved Marlo's Easy 100% of alpha001 by 1 second to get 0:56.
Amrik Kochhar keeps playing a3. He improved his Nightmare Run by 5 seconds to get 1:02.
He did the Easy 100% as well 4 seconds faster than Hannu to get 2:49.
And finally he did the Nightmare 100% 13 seconds faster than Justin to get 3:02.

As a little teaser for what is going to happen with RotW in the future, you can take a look at this page to get an idea of what it's all about.

The new RotW contest will be posted very soon...Stay tuned!

Hannu Kankaanpää improved Daniel Hansson's Easy Run of czg100b by 4 seconds to get 0:47.
Jonny Andersson improved his Nightmare Run by 11 seconds to get 0:47.
Justin Fleck improved Richard's Nightmare 100% by 12 seconds to get 1:32.
Amrik Kochhar improved his Easy Run of a3 by 3 more seconds to get 0:58.
Amrik also did the Nightmare Run in time of 1:07, which is 1 second faster than Daniel Hansson.
Daniel Hansson improved Aleksander's Easy 100% of fatal-error by 4 seconds to get 2:01.
Daniel hooked up with Jonny to do the Easy 100% in 1:35 (2:01) Tablefiller.
Carl-Johan Andersson improved his Easy Run of darknite by 1 second to get 1:27.

Easy demos:

Daniel Hansson did the Easy Run of the new map czg100b in a time of 0:51.
Daniel also filled out the empty hole for the Easy 100% spot which he did in a time of 2:02.
Amrik Kochhar improved Daniel's Easy Run of a3 by 2 seconds to get 1:01.
My brother (Mads-Peter) improved Marlo's Easy 100% of badland1 by 2 second to get 1:55.
Daniel Hansson improved Daniel Lindberg's Easy Run of coopmine by 2 seconds to get 1:29.
Filip S�derholm improved his Easy 100% of doom2_08 by yet another second to get 1:30.
Basil de Vries improved Daniel Andersson's Easy 100% of fatal-error by 15 seconds to get 2:30.
Andrey Stepanov improved that time by one more second to get 2:29.
But Aleksander Osipov is back with a vengeance. He improved Andrey's time by 24 seconds to get 2:05.
Andrey improved Matthias Belz' old Easy Run of mexx8 by 38 seconds to get 4:20.
He also improved the Easy 100% by 5 seconds to get 7:32.
Robert Axelsson improved Justin's Easy Run of r1m5 by 5 seconds to get 0:59.

Nightmare demos:

Jonny Andersson did the Nightmare Run of czg100b in a time of 0:58.
Daniel Hansson improved Nolan's Nightmare 100% by 22 seconds to get 1:56.
But Richard Skidmore improved that by another 12 seconds to get 1:44.
Andrey Stepanov improved Richard's Nightmare 100% of fatal-error by 10 seconds to get 2:31.
But Daniel Hansson went nutz and improved that by 32 seconds to get 1:59.
Andrey improved Matthias' Nightmare Run of mexx8 by 10 seconds to get 5:09.

Coop demos:

DanielH/FredrikE did the Easy Run of evildead to get a time of 0:37 (0:46) 5 seconds faster than DanielA/FredrikE.
DanielH/Jonny/FredrikE did the Easy 100% of pit to get a time of 1:09 (2:17) Tablefiller.

Marathon demos:

Daniel Hansson improved his Easy 100% of czg07 by 68 seconds to get a time of 17:43.
DanielH/Jonny/FredrikE did the Easy Run in a time of 1:56.

It's a slow trickle of maps...cuz I'm still too lazy to post more than that at once. The newest map to be added to the glorious tables of SDA is czg100b - Rabbit in my Deadlight by CZG, of course.

To start things off I did the nightmare 100% in a lousy time of 2:18. Somebody beat it, please!

Special notice to the staff of PlanetQuake who made SDA the Site of the Day today. That's the 5th time in 3 years :-)